Despite the brilliantly tempting sunlight beckoning to get out and play, today is just NOT one of those days due to brutally cold temps and winds. We're at a HIGH of ZERO (F) today!
So, hunkering down snugly at home, keeping way busy with a... Read more

As I've downsized my body over the years I've come to appreciate also the importance of downsizing the "stuff" around me as well. One important source of this growing awareness arose from my self-supported bicycle tours in which I realized how f... Read more

As many changes as I have wrought for myself over the past several years since joining SparkPeople, I am betting that this year ahead will be one of my most transformative years yet. Today I re-visited this TED talk by Lissa Rankin which excited... Read more

We've had some interest among our local SparkTeam members in catching up for a walk so I set up a meet 'n greet for today...however back when I set it up the weather was calling for mid-20's.
Instead we only had 11 degrees...brrr! So our r... Read more

A lot of smart blogs have been posted related to FatLoser.com and recently the theme has been that "thin people eat to live, fat people eat for pleasure."
Certainly if we're going to shift gears from one way of living (eating for pleasure)... Read more

2014 was off to a hobble with a pacemaker install and blood thinner jitters scaring me off the bike until June...although it certainly picked up steam with an AWESOME self-supported tour through the Catskill Mountains in September.
I am loo... Read more

The sun and cloudless blue skies called...so out I rode!
First ride since Veterans Day, mid-November! Best Christmas present of all!
Temps in the low 40's...chilly but "do-able" with my bike tights and day-glo-orange sweatshirt. My Dr... Read more

So far, so good navigating those treacherous holiday party waters...able to weather it pretty well! Helps to make sure to bring a healthy dish to pass. Mine was an apple / raisin / walnut salad with yogurt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Somebody ma... Read more

Recently at work, probably a carry over from Thanksgivoween candy mark-downs, some anonymous *questionably* well-meaning person at work brought in two GIGUNDO bags of candy corn and plopped 'em on the kitchen table for all to snarf.
I studi... Read more

One of the cool things our local bike club does is to join in with our local Christmas Parade. Our club members do some pretty clever things to trick their bikes out for the occasion, so I thought I'd pass along a couple pics they've shared in a... Read more

Today was our 1st significant snowfall of the year and we got off work early...woo hoo, off to the fitness center!
BUT: at the same time I am ready to leave work I get a surprise phone call from a bike club member who just got a free membe... Read more

This past Saturday I had delivered Thanksgiving food baskets to several of my clients so I had a 1/2 day of comp time banked when we rolled into a sunny, 60+ degree day on Monday...and AGAIN, a blessed "hooky" day comes along! :-)
First sto... Read more

While SparkPeople has in general been a relatively "safe" haven within the wild, wild frontier of the internet, I have occasionally come across unscrupulous attempts to prey on members of our SparkFamily. So I send this out to alert people to ex... Read more

Actually it wasn't precisely "hooky" but...I and only one other person in our non-profit human service agency are shared by the state office of mental health. State employees are being downsized in numbers tremendously as cost cutting measures r... Read more